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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely ...
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More than half of life on Earth experiencing unprecedented conditions
An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of humanity, with ...
The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
NASA Tracking Three Plane-Sized Asteroids Approaching Earth Today
Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...
Astronomers Confirm 4 Rocky Exoplanets in Earth’s Backyard, Just 6 Light-Years Away
The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...
Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions,' study suggests
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...
Earth's climate is in the era of 'global weirding'
The world's climate has become more unpredictable, leading experts to coin the term "global weirding." The rising ...